General CV Planning Board Information

The Carmel Valley Community Planning Board (CVCPB) is a group of elected volunteers who meet monthly to review and to evaluate proposed development plans and issues affecting the entire Carmel Valley and Pacific Highlands Ranch (PHR) communities. Serving in an advisory capacity, the CVCPB offers specific comments, recommendations and decisions to the City of San Diego's Department of City Planning & Community Investment, Planning Commission and City Council. The CVCPB has direct involvement with city, county and local law enforcement agencies.

Regular meetings on the Fourth Thursday of each month, at the CV Library.

Board Members

Click here for the CVCPB Board Roster

Agendas, Bylaws, Maps & Documents

The CVCPB Documents Page has bylaws, maps, community plans, and more.

CV Planning Board MAD Subcommittee, Feb 7, 2012

The Carmel Valley Planning Board's CV North Maintenance Assessment District (MAD) Subcommittee will meet on Tuesday, February 7, 2012 at 4:30 PM at the Carmel Valley Recreation Center (3777 Townsgate Drive). The agenda includes MAD Parks Permitting, Winwood Park tot-lot upgrade, Carmel Country Road median landscape project and a follow-up to the FY 2013 budget. The CV North MAD Agenda included below, or see the CV Planning Board Page for additional information about the Planning Board.

CV Planning Board Special Meeting, Feb 1, 2012

There will be a special meeting of the Carmel Valley Planning Board at 4:30 pm, Feb 1, 2012 at the Carmel Valley Library, 3919 Townsgate Drive. The meeting will cover letters the planning board wishes to send on the Polo Fields and on the Retirement Community planned on Via de la Valle. Here is the agenda.

CV Planning Board Elections

Elections coming up for the Carmel Valley Planning Board, the seats for neighborhoods 4 and 7 are vacant, so, if you're interested in the community, here's you're chance to participate! Additionally up for election are the seats for neighborhoods 8, 8a/b, 9, PHR District 11, one investor seat and one business seat. Find the CV Planning Board Neighborhood Maps Here. Karen Billing, our great local reporter at the Carmel Valley News, points us to the full details in this CV Planning Elections Story.

CV Planning Board's January 2012 Agenda

Here is the agenda for the January 2012 meeting of the Carmel Valley Community Planning Board. The meeting is on Thursday night, January 26, 7:00 PM at the CV Library (3919 Townsgate Dr.) The agenda includes items on the local Maintenance Assessment District (MAD) Budgets, the San Dieguito River Park, the Del Mar Mesa Carmel Mountain Resource Management Plan, and the proposed development in the River Valley (Rancho Del Mar Retirement Community). Here's the Jan 2012 CV Planning Board Agenda, read it for complete information.

Dec 2011 Regional Issues Meeting

The Carmel Valley Community Planning Board's Regional Issues Subcommittee will meet on Wednesday, December 7, 2011 at 7:00 PM UPDATE: 4:30 to 6:00 PM (sorry!) at the Carmel Valley Library to discuss development issues in the San Diego community (this is the regular meeting date, the first Wednesday of each month.) On the Dec 2011 Agenda (attached) is the Worsch Way project: to consider a request for a 10 lot subdivision for 8 single-family homes in Neighborhood 5 (Immediately North of SR-56 between Carmel Creek Road and Carmel Country Road). This project has previously been considered by the CV Planning Board (see CV News Story Here), but a few discussion points remain to be considered (see the attached agenda for details.) Any recommendation of the Regional Issues subcommittee is passed on to the CV Planning Board for further consideration.

CV Planning Board's November 2011 Agenda

Attached is the November 2011 Agenda for the Carmel Valley Community Planning Board. The meeting is on Thursday night, November 17, 7:00 PM at the CV Library (3919 Townsgate Dr.) Please note that the meeting is a week early, due to a conflict with Thanksgiving. The agenda looks fairly light, with only a few items on the Action Agenda, all of which are requests for signage variances on commercial buildings on High Bluff Dr. Anyway, Here's the November CV Planning Board Agenda, hope to see you there!

CV Planning Board Meeting on Nov 17, 2011

Due to a conflict with the Thanksgiving Holiday, the CV Planning Board's November 2011 meeting has been rescheduled to Nov 17, 2011. Agenda coming shortly.

CV MAD Meeting, Nov 1, 2011

There will be a joint meeting of the Carmel Valley Planning Board CV North MAD, the CV N. 10 MAD and the PHR MAD Subcommittees (for the area north of SR-56, the area south of SR-56, and the PHR community to the East) on Tuesday, November 1, 2011 at 4:30 PM at the Carmel Valley Recreation Center (3777 Townsgate Drive). The meeting will be to go over the proposed budgets for these areas, with the Agenda included below, or see the CV Planning Board Page for additional information about the Planning Board.

October 2011 CV Planning Board Meeting

The Carmel Valley Community Planning Board will meet at 7 pm, on Thursday, October 27, 2011 at the Carmel Valley Library (3919 Townsgate Dr., San Diego, CA 92130). Meeting topics include: an FBA update, and information on the City's plan to create a "San Diego Canyonlands Regional Park" (see attached letter.) For complete information, download the CV Planning Board's August 2011 Agenda or see the Planning Board Page.

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CV Planning Board

Regular Meetings are now on the fourth Thursday of each month at the Carmel Valley Library.

Maps, Community Plans, Bylaws & the agenda are available at the CVCPB Documents Page.

To contact the board, get copies of meeting minutes or other records, or get on the agenda, please contact:

Mailing Address: Carmel Valley Community Planning Board
c/o: Allen Kashani, Pardee Homes
12626 High Bluff Drive, Suite 100
San Diego, CA 92130
Phone: Frisco White, Chair: 619-542-1188

Board Members: Click here for the CVCPB Board Roster

Community Calendar

Additional Information

The Documents Page has bylaws, maps, community plans, and more.

San Diego City Information

The City of San Diego is divided into Communities such as Torrey Pines, Carmel Valley, Torrey Hills and Del Mar Mesa (see the Community Map.) Each has a planning board, which makes recommendations to the San Diego City Council. Find the agendas at these pages:

Board Members: Click here for the CVCPB Board Roster

Next Elections in March, 2012: The following seats are up for election: the PHR Residential District 11 seat, 5 CV Residential seats (Neighborhoods 4, 7 8, 8a/b, 9), and one Investor seat and one Business seat. If you're interested in the community, here's you're chance to participate! Find the CV Planning Board Neighborhood Maps Here. See the Carmel Valley News CV Planning Elections Story. Please attend the January CV Planning Board Meeting if you are interested (see calendar for date and time.) You must attend 2 meetings to be eligible to be a candidate. See the CVCPB Bylaws, the CV Neighborhood Map and the PHR Neighborhood Map for details.

Subcommittee Meetings (See above for meeting dates and times):

  • MAD - Maintenance Assessment District. This is a community wide homeowners group paid for by all members of the community. It handles maintenance of many street frontage areas and parks throughout the community. Meets on the first Tuesday of the month, 4:30pm, at the Rec Center
  • Rec Council - The recreation council manages recreational programming and park usage throughout Carmel Valley. Meets on the first Tuesday of the month, 7:00pm, at the Rec Center.
  • Pacific Highlands Ranch - Pacific Highlands Ranch is the community immediately to the east of Carmel Valley. This subcommittee handles planning issues related to that community, as they don't have a planning board of their own.
  • Regional Issues/Design Review - Meets on the first Wednesday of the month, 4:30pm, at the Library.
  • FBA - Facilities Benefit Assessment. This subcommittee manages a fund paid for by developers for improvements throughout the community related to population growth.
  • Elections - Elections are always in March, and potential candidates should attend the January and February meetings. The subcommittee manages the election.
  • Bylaws - Committee to discuss bylaws changes.
  • Signage - Committee to discuss signage issues (such as illegally posted signs) in Carmel Valley.
  • Trails/Neighborhood 8 - Trails are discussed at the Del Mar Mesa Planning Board meetings, on the 2nd Thursday of each month, 7pm, at the Carmel Valley Library.
  • SR56 - The SR-56 Steering Committee is a group of representatives from local communities that discuss the impacts of potential connector ramps between SR-56 and I-5.
  • Concourse - Committee to discuss the idea of a new linear park/concourse along Townsgate Drive.
  • Police Station - Committee to discuss issues of the new Police Substation on El Camino Real.
  • Skate Park - Committee to discuss the proposed Skate Facility on El Camino Real, adjacent to the new Police Station.
  • CVREP - CVREP is the Carmel Valley Restoration and Enhancement Project, which is a restored waterway and trail along SR-56. This committee discusses issues with that area.